World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2017
WESO Trends 2017: The disconnect between growth and employment
Growth continues to disappoint, both in terms of its level but also in terms of its ability to make important inroads to making growth more inclusive. The ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2017 highlights the challenges for the coming year in jobs and the labour market.
13 January 2017
Duration: 2’30”
Sources: All ILO TV, free to use, please credit ILO TV. All ILO audio-visual material is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 IGO license, copyright ILO
Locations: Geneva, Switzerland – Palais des Nations
Shot list :
00.00 to 00.04 Report cover
00.04 to 00.21 ILO Director General Guy Ryder: “We expect global unemployment to increase by three point four million in 2017 and that will bring the global unemployment level to 201 million in the year that's beginning. “
00.21 to 00.53 DG Ryder: “Many countries around the world in all regions continue to strive to repair the damage to the labor markets caused by the crisis that broke in 2008 at the time when more and more people are entering the workforce each year and this of course together means that there are major challenges for the task of creating a significant and sufficient number of quality jobs of decent jobs in the ILO's parlance.”
00.53 to 02.09 DG Ryder: “The major message is that despite the marginal improvement in economic growth foreseen for next year this will not be enough to stop unemployment in the world are growing so we're going to see three point four million more people unemployed in the world in 2017. The second point has to do with the qualitative rather than the quantitative dimension of this story. Unfortunately these trends mean that we will fail to make necessary progress in reducing vulnerable unemployment, in reducing working poverty and we need to be attentive to these qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. And lastly -- and it's not the smallest piece of all of this -- is all of these trends mean the problems of inequality, disparities in our societies are going to continue. These represent not only a social problem but also a real economic problem. These are in themselves a brake on economic growth and job creation. So the message I think in Davos has to be don't sit back. We need to make greater efforts to pull our global economy out of the after effects of the crisis of 2008 and we need to do it at the international level at a time when there is a lot of uncertainty out there. Let's make sure that international cooperation and focus remains on the jobs crisis.”
02.09 to 02.30 GV’s of the UN press conference room.